Ulysses
by Joyce, James With A Foreword By Morris L Ernst (Including A Copies Of Judge John M Woolsey's Order Lifting The Ban On The
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Dust soiling along top edge otherwise clean, unmarked very good hard cover book in green boards with JJ in black/ light edgewear
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Random House/ Modern Library edition, 1946. book club edition (ML #207). Dust soiling along top edge otherwise clean, unmarked very good hard cover book in green boards with JJ in black/ light edgewear at head of dust jacket spine otherwise a nice price clipped very good dust jacket with black background and title in gray,... Contains the original foreword by the author, Judge Woolsey's order lifting the ban of its sale, and a foreword by Morris Ernst; xvii, 768 pages.
Synopsis
Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce. It was first serialized in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Originally, Joyce conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners , but decided instead to publish it as a long novel, situated as a sort of sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , picking up Stephen Dedalus’s life over a year later. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin - now celebrated as Bloomsday annually. Within the massive text of 265,000 words (not so “short” anymore, eh?), divided into 18 episodes, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. The presentation of a fragmented reality through interior perception in Ulysses , often through stream-of-consciousness, is one of many reasons it is considered a paramount in Modernist literature. Ulysses presents a series of parallels with Homer’s epic poem Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinized name of Odysseus.) Not only can correspondences be drawn between the main characters of each text — Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus, Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, and Molly Bloom to Penelope, but each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses reflects an adventure from the Odyssey. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. February 2022 will mark the centennial of the publishing of Ulysses , with auctions, sales, and celebrations by Joyce fans scheduled around the globe. From our Book Collecting Guide: Collecting Ulysses https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/collecting-one-book/collecting-ulysses-by-james-joyce/
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- Seller
- Lorrin Wong, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2563162
- Title
- Ulysses
- Author
- Joyce, James With A Foreword By Morris L Ernst (Including A Copies Of Judge John M Woolsey's Order Lifting The Ban On The
- Book Condition
- Used - Dust soiling along top edge otherwise clean, unmarked very good hard cover book in green boards with JJ in black/ light edgewear
- Edition
- book club edition (ML #207)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Random House/ Modern Library edition
- Date Published
- 1946
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Lorrin Wong, Bookseller
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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